"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit." --
Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
"Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself." -- Mark Twain
"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." -- Johann von Goethe
"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him." --
Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people." --
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." --
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." --
Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
"Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place." --
Ice T, The Ice Opinion
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." --
Andy Rooney (1919 - )
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." --
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." --
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." --
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind." --
John Tillotson (1630 - 1694)
"Ignorance never settles a question." --
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
"Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference." --
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." --
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." --
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." --
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." --
Booker T. Washington
"We like you happy not sad, let the ugly chicks and owls be sad." --
FAT SONNY
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." --
Aristotle
"The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!"-- Eleanor Roosevelt
“Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a difference to the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.” -- Ronald Reagan
"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." -- Richard Milhous Nixon
"Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over." -- Bella Abzug
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." -- Bill Cosby
There are more, and I will add as I think of them. If you have a favorite Quote, leave it in a comment!